
6th March 2006, 10:32 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Blue Mountains: Australia
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Originally Posted by nevf As I mentioned above you can do this using Article | Attach File or right click | Attach File. See the Help Topic: "Attaching & Linking files to Articles".
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Sure: that's OK, I understand that
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Originally Posted by nevf I've only just had my first cup of coffee for the day/week and might not be completely in tune with your request.
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Not sure if it should go somewhere else, I think I mentioned it in the ideas section of the download page...
When you create an article from a WebPage, I'm guessing it's something like this: - Create and store thumbnail
- Get highlighted part of page and store in article
- Get Meta Tags and url
- Add Reference and Attachments
What I'd like to do is to be able to expose that functionality to VBA and other scripting technologies, so that the same type of thing can happen in other applications apart from Web Browsers, eg using VBA in Office applications or a scripting language in other applications, create a macro which will: - Create and store a thumbnail (a bit like window capture maybe?)
- Get highlighted part of page and store in article (would need to convert it to HTML first, which isn't too difficult for office, simple for text, but could be more problematic for other apps -- probably fall back to plain text?)
- Get MetaTags and url (for office applications the Document Description and keywords could be used; url = file address
- Add Reference (file://C:/My Documents/file.doc) and Attachments
So, I'm not wanting just to attach other file types, but integrate them like the HTML pages have been. Does that make sense?
Regs,
Perry
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